(10-08-2014 03:37 AM)rprosperi Wrote:  

(10-08-2014 12:25 AM)jebem Wrote:  I manage to complete the translation to English of the Russian Elektronika MK-61 user guide.

Ok, now you've done it! I had been able to convince myself I don't want (need) one of these Russian RPN machines since I can't understand the manual, and can't even read the keyboard. Damn.

Nice job on the manual Jose! At least, I think it's a nice job... in any case, it took a LOT of work and looks quite nice, thanks for that and for sharing.

(10-08-2014 06:10 AM)Massimo Gnerucci Wrote:  Thanks a lot Jose!

(10-24-2014 12:28 PM)jebem Wrote:  Apparently the RapidGator file sharing was not a good idea.
Too much waiting, adverts, and other things in between.
What do you think is a better file sharing portal (a free one if possible)?

(10-24-2014 04:47 PM)Mark Hardman Wrote:  

(10-24-2014 12:28 PM)jebem Wrote:  Apparently the RapidGator file sharing was not a good idea.
Too much waiting, adverts, and other things in between.
What do you think is a better file sharing portal (a free one if possible)?

If you were to ask Katie Wasserman, I'm sure she would be glad to host it on her "Vintage Electronic Calculator Manuals" site at http://www.wass.net/manuals/index.htm. She already has a PDF of the Russian version of the manual.

(10-26-2014 04:34 PM)Den Belillo (Martinez Ca.) Wrote:  Brilliant. Both of you. Thanks.
Q: Pages 44 & 49, are blank and the last one is just color bars on my Linux laptop but sometimes it makes up it's own rules. Is this as intended?

(09-28-2014 09:44 PM)Benoit Maag Wrote:  These are the pictures of the MK-61 I bought recently.
Indeed, the display cover is blueish and the angle unit selection switch is unusual (and very high).


For reference, see the lot# information in the back - I do not know how to interpret it


Looking forward to the translated manual - Thank you Jose for working on this

I bought the machine from this vendor - the pictures he shows are of a machine similar to the one I bought: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=271606786671


Benoit

(12-07-2014 06:27 PM)aurelio Wrote:  Hi Josè, hi all, I've received my MK61, I'm not able at the moment to get pictures of it, but I'll share them asap.
What I found unusual on the label engraved on the back of the calculator (the price is the same 85 r) is the that
Manufactured: 08 91..............................................?
In all the others I met (on the web, of course, I mean) the year comes before the month....

(10-26-2014 04:49 PM)jebem Wrote:  

(10-26-2014 04:34 PM)Den Belillo (Martinez Ca.) Wrote:  Brilliant. Both of you. Thanks.
Q: Pages 44 & 49, are blank and the last one is just color bars on my Linux laptop but sometimes it makes up it's own rules. Is this as intended?

Thanks for checking the PDF file, Den.

Those pages are indeed blank, to replicate as much as possible my paper copy of the Russian guide.
The only exceptions are page 3, 8 and 9 where I added some content not contained in the original.

The original covers have the same color strips, so I took the time to copy that schema as well.

(12-08-2014 11:46 AM)aurelio Wrote:  Hi Josè, I realize now you have translated the user manual: WHAT GREAT A JOB YOU HAVE DONE, КАКОЙ ПОДАРОК!!!

(12-08-2014 02:08 PM)jebem Wrote:  

(12-08-2014 11:46 AM)aurelio Wrote:  Hi Josè, I realize now you have translated the user manual: WHAT GREAT A JOB YOU HAVE DONE, КАКОЙ ПОДАРОК!!!

Пожалуйста, Aurelio!
It is my pleasure to share this small work with my hobby peers.

I was bored and with some time to kill, using the Russian guide to check my recently acquired NIB MK-61, so one thing took to another and when I realized, I was running a full translation of the guide.

The worst part was to have to type so many words in Cyrillic on the OCR'd text, as my ABBY Reader, as good as it can be, was still misunderstanding a lot of text from the scanned pages, due to the small size Russian font used in the printed recycled pages.
Well, fortunately I have this Cyrillic keyboard overlays on my home computers since long time ago, from my other past translation works. But that's a story for other occasion.

(12-08-2014 06:43 PM)aurelio Wrote:  what do you think about the other "anomaly" recorded with the previous post?

(12-08-2014 09:56 PM)jebem Wrote:  

(12-08-2014 06:43 PM)aurelio Wrote:  what do you think about the other "anomaly" recorded with the previous post?

See Post #50 above...

(10-28-2015 02:14 AM)Brad Barton Wrote:  My manual looks very different from the ones shown here. Perhaps an different version of the manual is to be expected since my 61 is an earlier version (12th week of '93 it appears). Also mine doesn't have the price molded into the plastic like the ones I see here. That part of my back cover is merely left blank. Maybe a little of the old capitalism was creeping in. See picture of the manual below.